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First Stirrings : Khajuraho – paean to life

THE temples of Khajuraho in Madhya Pradesh are India’s unique gift to the world, representing, as they do, a paean to life, to...

ByHarjeshwar Pal SinghSeptember 7, 2015

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First Stirrings : For whom the bells tolled

IN the early 1960s, the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) had a halo around it, thanks to the legacy of the British Raj that...

ByNarendra KaushikSeptember 7, 2015

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First Stirrings : Rising above caste affiliations

FOR Ashok Nath, the 1966-batch UT-cadre IAS officer, the events started unfolding even before he appeared for the civil services examination. The septuagenarian...

ByNarendra KaushikAugust 11, 2015

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First Stirrings : Learning the value of trust

IT was early in his career that Yogendra Narain, a 1965 UP-cadre IAS officer, learnt the value of winning the trust of his...

ByNarendra KumarJuly 8, 2015

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First Stirrings : The Insider

IT was at an early stage of his career that Shantonu Sen, a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)-cadre officer recruited in the investigating...

ByNarendra KaushikJune 7, 2015

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First Stirrings : City Architect

WHEN Brijesh Kumar of the 1968 IAS batch, Uttar Pradesh cadre, passed out of the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, India...

ByNarendra KaushikMarch 4, 2015

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First Stirrings : IPS Rebel

KS Subramanian is perhaps the first victim of Hindutva forces as represented by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP). It was on November 6,...

ByNarendra KaushikFebruary 7, 2015

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First Stirrings : I joined the army to fight the Nazis

HE hails from a family that migrated to India some 200 years ago and he proved himself a great warrior. One of the...

ByNeeraj MahajanJanuary 7, 2015

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First Stirrings : ‘They could not accept a Secretary questioning orders’

THIS is the most incredible story of KK Jaiswal, an honest and straight-forward bureaucrat, who was so desperate without official accommodation that he...

ByNeeraj MahajanDecember 6, 2014

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First Stirrings : Facing up to crises

Uttar Pradesh is a very big State. In my opinion, the State needs to be divided into more manageable areas of administration-Western UP,...

ByNeeraj MahajanNovember 6, 2014

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